Biden Plan for China Could Be Part of Agreement with EU

The Biden presidency is a race amid Washington's efforts to establish a broader, stronger anti-Cina coalition and Beijing's efforts to counter it.

The latest event was the investment agreement China closed, in principle, with the European Union in late December. This deal under economic influence; it may offer modest European investments in China, though some experts are sceptical.

There has been criticism that this was not a proper move by the EU that focused on human rights and democratic values, however, assumed an approach to China's disgusting practices of forced labour. (The agreement includes provisions urging China to strengthen its labour rights, but it is difficult to imagine Beijing respecting those provisions. )

It is certainly a disappointment for a future Benden administration that has called for consultations on a joint economic approach by Beijing.

More importantly, the agreement should be seen as a step of China's greatest effort to avoid the global coalition that Biden wants and needs.

Beden didn't hide the fact that this is his target. “on any issue that matters to US-Chinese relations,” said in December, “We are stronger and more effective when surrounded by nations sharing our vision for the future of the world. ”

He and his advisers have been discussing technological issues, working together with European nations concerned by neo-mercantilistic trade practices, China's economic interpretation of realism, and the shift from President Donald Trump's strategy for unilateral confrontation to one of the multi-lateral leverages.

The logic of this approach is that a close US-Kine competition has more impact on Beijing than on America. However, Beijing cannot win that competition if the US takes full advantage of its relations with countries that make up a clear majority of global economic output and military expenditures as the Soviet Union could never overcome the collective force of the free world during the Cold War, Abcnews follows.

The more the US forges ties with key allies and partners, the more Beijing will oppose gathering its rivals together in the country.

Biden's strategy is reasonable, but it also faces major challenges.

The biggest challenge, however, is that China has all the reasons to thwart this effort to build the coalition and is struggling through promotion and obligation.

Xi's sudden promise to reach zero-zero emissions by 2060 met with scepticism and certainly justified, but his clear geopolitical goal was to position Beijing as a defeat for a US that was effectively withdrawn from the climate agreement under Trump's rule.

Similarly, the 15-member economic and Regional New Partnership will hardly revolutionise Indo-Peaceual trade, but underscores the growth of Beijing's economic power plant in the region.

At the end of the year, some of China's conveniences won the investment agreement with the EU, which would hinder any push to limit European economic engagement with China and efforts to boost transatlantic tensions on the eve of the Biden presidency.

This agreement was also followed by a German decision on condition of allowing Chinese technology giant Huawei to be part of building his 5G network, despite heavy US pressure.

The trade struggle Beijing launched against Australia for its diplomatic disobedience last autumn may be intended to discourage other democracies from joining the anti-Kina coalition.

Under the EU agreement, China has greater ability to destroy the coalition than the Soviet Union.

Fortunately for the United States, Xi is facing problems in this effort. China's behavior over the past year - in Hong Kong, industrial rights violations, diplomacy, and numerous forced labor campaigns have had a negative effect on favorable global estimates.

Even where European governments, such as Angela Merkel in Germany, remain open to a deep commitment with China, there is growing popular and parliamentary scepticism of these ties. And XI's coalition game can become more difficult during the Benden era, especially if the administration combines a clear approach to competition from China with an ambitious agenda of climate change and disputes with allies.

Beden, so far, has shown in every way that this is the plan. And Xi has shown that he is determined not to implement this plan.